History Fanfic / ZoruaTrainer

* TheTeam: Ash and his team certainly qualify.
** [[TheLeader Ash the Zorua]]: Being the Trainer means Ash holds this position by default, but he still shows many traits that show how he's the true leader of the team; chief among them being the glue that holds the team together.
** [[TheLancer Pikachu]]: Being Ash's childhood friend, and the one most used to Ash's ADD and impulsive tendencies; he's often the one that reigns Ash in if he goes too far, and is also the one Ash leans on for alternate ideas.
** [[TheBigGuy Pidgeotto]]: Both the largest 'mon on the team and also Ash's heaviest hitter. She also loves a good fight and even joined Ash initially to get stronger. [[spoiler:She evolved into a Pidgeot during the fight against Mewtwo and took the nickname Morningstar.]]
** [[TheHeart Selene the Clefairy]]: The more curious of the group (which, given how she grew up in a cave underground, isn't a big surprise), Selene is also the most empathic; often the one more likely to be emotional and more likely to worry as opposed to the rest of the group. [[spoiler:She evolved into Clefable for the rematch against Blaine.]]
** [[TheBabyoftheBunch Sunny the Charmander]]: The second youngest of the group and also the one the others feel the most protective over due to his rather naive nature and gentle personality. [[spoiler:He evolved into Charmeleon to protect Ash from Giovanni's Persian.]]
** [[TheSmartGuy Eevee]]: Comes with previously being owned by Bill, but Eevee is the most scientific-minded of the group; frequently launching into scientific ramblings that the rest of the group tunes out at time. [[spoiler:She evolved into an Umbreon after the first battle against Blaine, and shortly thereafter took the nickname Eve.]]
** [[SixthRanger Storm the Squirtle]]: Formerly Numbuh Five of the Squirtle Squad, became the sixth Pokémon Ash owned. [[spoiler:She evolved into a Wartortle during the battle against Koga.]]
** [[TagalongKid Art (short for Arthalothadamesh) the Ralts]]: A Ralts from the Rota Kingdom who chooses Ash to be his trainer out of a desire for adventure. At only six weeks old, he's the youngest both physically ''and'' mentally.

* HadToBeSharp: Even as a little kit, Ash could pack a mean punch when push came to shove. Even as he grew up, he and Pikachu were trained by Delia's Blastoise, Shelldon, who got back into fighting shape thanks to helping Gary's father on the Unova circuit and is something of a DrillSergeantNasty.

** As it turns out, some nine year olds in Pallet Town, calling themselves Team Go, knew about Ash's secret, but didn't want to ask Delia about it because they are scared of Shelldon.

** The other team members also avert this trope and play it straight. Pikachu is around six or seven, and Pidgeotto and Selene are both three, but they're all mentally closer to ten. Sunny is the biggest aversion, as he's somewhere around one year old (give or take a month or two), but he's closer to a five- or six-year-old mentally. Eevee plays this somewhat straight, as she's eight but around a preteen mentally. Art is less than a year old but acts like he's five.

** [[TagalongKid Art (short for Arthalothadamesh) the Ralts]]: A Ralts from the Rota Kingdom who chooses Ash to be his trainer out of a desire for adventure. At only six months old, he's the youngest both physically ''and'' mentally.

* HealingHands: An ability of Aura adepts, which [[spoiler:Karen]] forces herself to learn in a hurry in Chapter 50, in conjunction with her Riolu [[spoiler:and its clone]], to heal [[spoiler:Misty]].

** The Lord of the Rings.
** Batman.
** Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series.

** K'eyush The Stunt Dog from Website/YouTube.

** And The Elder Scrolls series.

** Ash's team is a mixed bag; Pikachu, Pidgeotto, and Eevee [[spoiler:the latter two prior to evolving]] all go by their species name either due to personal preference or wanting to take their time choosing the best name. Clefairy, Charmander, Squirtle, and Ralts, though, accept nicknames as soon as the option presents itself. [[spoiler:Both Eevee and Pidgeotto eventually adopted their nicknames after evolving into Umbreon and Pidgeot respectively.]]

* {{After Action Patchup}}: Typical after a Gym Challenge, but the aftermath of Ash's challenges against Lt. Surge and Sabrina are the standout examples.

** [[spoiler:Sunny's original Trainer Damian and Sabrina]] are the two notable exceptions to this. Ash even states on multiple occasions that he hates them both and doesn't forgive either of them for what they've done. However, he does hold hope that he can eventually forgive the latter due to their circumstances.

** Team Rocket is also hit with this, as their canonical weekly encounters with Ash have been reduced to once or twice every dozen chapters.

** Then there's Team Rocket as a wider organization. You've got the bumbling trio that undercuts the entire organization's threat level...and then you've got Archer, one of Giovanni's deadliest executives, and Giovanni himself. Before the attack on the Game Corner, it seems that Leaf was the one handling the more dangerous Team Rocket agents. Now, however, Ash and company are in Archer's crosshairs. [[spoiler:Of course, it's somewhat subverted in that Archer and everyone under his command get arrested the next time they go after Ash and his friends.]]

** Karen also takes this role, being the oldest of the three Trainers. She also is the one that tends to take the more mature role when things go bad; one of the standout examples being breaking up the Team Rocket base with Leaf, with Karen insisting they leave and get the police.

** Ash's team is a mixed bag; Pikachu, Pidgeotto, and Eevee [[spoiler:the latter two prior to evolving]] all go by their species name either due to personal preference or wanting to take their time choosing the best name. Clefairy, Charmander, Squirtle, and Ralts, though, accept nicknames as soon as the option presents itself. [[spoiler:Both Eevee and Pidgeotto eventually adopts their nicknames after evolving into Umbreon and Pidgeot respectively.]]

** Ash's team is a mixed bag; Pikachu, Pidgeotto, and Eevee [[spoiler:prior to evolving into Umbreon]] all go by their species name either due to personal preference or wanting to take their time choosing the best name. Clefairy, Charmander, Squirtle, and Ralts, though, accept nicknames as soon as the option presents itself. [[spoiler:And Eevee eventually adopts a nickname after evolving.]]

* BadassCrew: Ash Ketchum, Zorua and Pokémon Trainer and the leader of his team. Accompanied by Pikachu, Pidgeotto, Selene the Clefairy, Sunny the Charmander [[spoiler:now Charmeleon]], Eevee [[spoiler:now Umbreon and nicknamed Eve]], Storm the Squirtle [[spoiler:now Wartortle]], and Art (short for Arthalothadamesh) the Ralts. Each of them is more than capable of holding their own in a fight, and each of them holds each other close like family.

** [[TheBigGuy Pidgeotto]]: Both the largest 'mon on the team and also Ash's heaviest hitter. She also loves a good fight and even joined Ash initially to get stronger.

** Pidgeotto fills this role despite being the third youngest, chronologically speaking, often taking the role of the more mature member when the bickering gets to be a bit much.

''Zorua Trainer'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' AlternateUniverse FanFiction by [=FriTik=]. When Gary's father catches a homeless, abandoned Zorua in Unova, he sends it over to his friend Delia Ketchum in Santo, who begins taking care of him and names him Ash. As Ash grows, his powers allow him to create a human disguise, he teaches himself to speak like a human, and he sparks a friendship with a Pichu at Professor Oak's laboratory. And when a man in Pallet Town gives him the idea to become a Trainer himself, Ash is taken with the idea, and Professor Oak can think of no good reason to say no. But Ash being a Zorua is far from the only change in this story...

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why Sunny the Charmander joined Ash's team, as they actually cared for him and showed him love and attention, whereas Damian was nothing but abusive to him.

* BullyingADragon: Damian really shouldn't have tried to get physical with the kid rightly calling him out for abandoning his Charmander.

* DamselOutOfDistress: By the time [[spoiler:Ash and co are rushing in the Rocket base to save Delia, she has already freed herself from her captors by way of using some DeliciousDistraction and freeing many of Team Rocket's captured pokémons]].

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Giovanni dies by Mewtwo's hand after the climax of the storming of the Rocket base by Ash and his friends due to an accidentally revealing comment he makes while fighting Ash]].

* TheGhost: Arnold the Pidgeot, one of Delia Ketchum's three Pokémon from her time as a Trainer, who sired a large portion of the Pidgey and Pidgeotto population around Pallet Town, including Ash's Pidgeotto. He was easily the most opposed to Delia quitting the Gym challenge, and the two haven't been on speaking terms for a long time.

* InnocentBlueEyes: When not in his human disguise, Ash has these, as all Zorua and Zoroark naturally have blue eyes. His rather optimistic and glass-half-full worldview tends to reinforce the image, but when he gets angry, those cute blue eyes turn quite cold and freezing.

** [[TheSmartGuy Eevee]]: Comes with previously being owned by Bill, but Eevee is the most scientific-minded of the group; frequently launching into scientific ramblings that the rest of the group tunes out at time. [[spoiler:She evolved into an Umbreon after the first battle against Blaine and is nicknamed Eve.]]

While the work is self-admittedly inspired by Saphroneth's "Fanfic/MasterPokemon", this story covers Ash's story in full as opposed to being slice of life "episodes" like with "Master, Pokémon?"

''Zorua Trainer'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' AlternateUniverse FanFiction by Fritik. When Gary's father catches a homeless, abandoned Zorua in Unova, he sends it over to his friend Delia Ketchum in Santo, who begins taking care of him and names him Ash. As Ash grows, his powers allow him to create a human disguise, he teaches himself to speak like a human, and he sparks a friendship with a Pichu at Professor Oak's laboratory. And when a man in Pallet Town gives him the idea to become a Trainer himself, Ash is taken with the idea, and Professor Oak can think of no good reason to say no. But Ash being a Zorua is far from the only change in this story...

''Zorua Trainer'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' AlternativeUniverse FanFiction by Fritik. When Gary's father catches a homeless, abandoned Zorua in Unova, he sends it over to his friend Delia Ketchum in Santo, who begins taking care of him and names him Ash. As Ash grows, his powers allow him to create a human disguise, he teaches himself to speak like a human, and he sparks a friendship with a Pichu at Professor Oak's laboratory. And when a man in Pallet Town gives him the idea to become a Trainer himself, Ash is taken with the idea, and Professor Oak can think of no good reason to say no. But Ash being a Zorua is far from the only change in this story...

A fanfic created by Fanfiction.net user Fritik; this Pokémon AU follows the classic idea of Ash Ketchum being a Zorua instead of a human. While the work is self admittedly inspired by Sathphroneth's "Fanfic/MasterPokemon"; Zorua Trainer deviates from the inspiration by covering Ash's story in full as opposed to being slice of life "episodes" like with "Master, Pokémon?".